Kavi and I got to Kankakee around 3:30 — we checked into our hotel and chilled for a bit, and then headed out to get some dinner.
I’d looked for fun things to do in Kankakee, and it turned out that there was an axe throwing place, Splitting Targets, next to the restaurant where we’d planned to eat, and I’ve never been axe throwing, and I wanted to keep Kavi from stressing about the ACT tomorrow morning, so I took her in there, and we paid $10 / person to throw axes for 30 minutes. (16 and up, wear closed-toe shoes)
The place also has a bar, a pool table, some video poker kinds of things. Several bikers too — Kavi felt a little out of place, but I told her I had a tattoo now, so we were fine. 🙂
It was really fun — Kavi was a little nervous, but there was a coach who talked us through it, and it all seems very safe as long as you’re sober and paying attention (we were sober, but not everyone else was).
It took about ten minutes before we both managed to actually throw correctly enough to have axes sticking in the wall, and by 20-25 minutes in, we’d both managed bulls-eyes. Once each, and I’m not sure we could repeat them anytime soon, but we were happy to take the win.
Please do consider us for your apocalyptic needs — if society goes back to axe throwing, apparently, we’re not terrible.
Sometimes the axe barely stuck in the wall, but as I said to Kavi, even a shallow axe slice in the right place would probably still be enough to take out an enemy.
(No pics of Kavi throwing, sorry — she hadn’t been warned that there’d be photography, so I don’t have permission to put up pics…. )
If you missed the video of me throwing that bulls-eye, it’s 6 seconds and I must say, very satisfying to watch – just scroll back a couple posts in my feed.
